Veneering



(Nv MOdQL) W. E. BROCK.

,VENEERING.v No. 368,567. PatentedA-ug. 23, 1887rl lUNrrnn Sarns PATENTVENEERBNG.

SPIECPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,567, dated August23. 1887.

Application tiled January 28, 1887. Serial No. 225,748. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. BROCK, of Plainiield, county of Union,and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful ImprovementsinVeneered Tongued and Grooved Lumber, to be used in wainscoting and forother purposes to which it may be adapted.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of fragments of several piecesof boards tongued and grooved in the usual manner and having veneeringapplied thereto in my improved manner. Fig. 2 is a View in perspectiveof a fragment of a board tongued and grooved, and showing my improvedmethod of applying the veneering thereto detached. Fig. 3 is a similarview to Fig. 2, showing the' tongued side ofa board only with theveneering applied.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings making part of thisspecification.

The object of this invention is to veneer tongued and grooved boards soas to adapt them to be used in wainscoting and other similar purposeswhere it is desirable ,to exclude moisture from the edges of theveneering to prevent it from becoming detached or separated, as will behereinafter described.

A in the accompanying drawings represents a number of boards tongued,grooved, and matched in the usual manner of preparing boards to be usedin Wainscoting, ceiling, &c. In preparing the boards to be veneered thegroove Bis made of sufficient width to reeeive the tongue C and twothicknesses ofthe veneering, as shown in Fig. 1.

rlhe veneering D is applied to the surface of the boards in the ordinarymanner and eX- tends over thel shoulder E and to the end of the tongue,as shown in the several iigures. On the grooved edge the veneeringpasses around and over the edge of the lip F and returns so that itsedge is within the groove as represented. When the boards are properlytongued and grooved and matched, as

shown in Fig. l, it will be observed that the' By veneering common cheaplumber in this manner with veneering of more costly woods very beautifuland inexpensive wainscoting and ceiling may be produced, adding much tothe ornamentation of dwellings Whereitis desirable to dispense withplaster, or the more expensive covering of tile.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein ,as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I The combination of tonguedand grooved boards, each having one surface veneered, and each boardhaving its groove of' sufficient width to receive the tongue of thecontiguous board and two thicknesses of veneer, so that when said boardsare joined together the edges of the veneers are concealed within thegroove and protected from moisture and other atmospheric influences, andprevented from warping or separating from the boards, substantially as.herein described.

. VILLAM E. BROOK.

Witnesses:

M. H. TorrrNG, Louis WERTHEIMER.

